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4/8/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Wisconsin & Southern
Model:EMD SD40-2Built As:MP 3281 (SD40-2)
Serial Number:786178-16Order No:786178
Frame Number:786178-16Built:5/1979
Notes:nee MP 3281, UP 4281, WSOR 4050, WAMX 4184
Other locos with this serial:  WSOR 4050(SD40-2) MP 3281(SD40-2) WAMX 4184(SD40-2) UP B4281(SD40-2B)
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WSOR 4050
Title:  WSOR 4050
Description:  4050 and 4051 (leading) head across Monona Bay after having spent some time at the UW-Heater plant on campus
Photo Date:  4/11/2005  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 8:57:39 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4050(SD40-2)
Views:  853   Comments: 1
WSOR 4050 & 4051
Title:  WSOR 4050 & 4051
Description:  Sisters 4051 and 4050 make a rare appearance on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to switch UW's coal-fired power plant. The SD40-2s are the bread and butter of the WSOR and haul their longest trains from the various WSOR hubs to Chicago
Photo Date:  4/11/2005  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 8:43:05 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4050(SD40-2) WSOR 4051(SD40-2)
Views:  1109   Comments: 0
WSOR 4050
Title:  WSOR 4050
Description:  Sisters 4050 and 4052 earn their keep on this extra run of the JMA (Janesville-Madison freight). The SD40-2 may be one of the most common locomotives in this country, but seeing a Silver and Red one in good light in Madison is a rarity. The train is paclng the Beltline Highway for the moment, but it will soon turn north and pass underneath it.
Photo Date:  5/29/2006  Upload Date: 5/29/2006 7:50:02 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4050(SD40-2) WSOR 4052(SD40-2)
Views:  1322   Comments: 0
WSOR 4006 and gang on the MJ
Title:  WSOR 4006 and gang on the MJ
Description:  The MJ races out of town as it approaches the Beltline underpass. The weather was cruddy, but I sure do love seeing trains at this spot.
Photo Date:  4/23/2007  Upload Date: 4/25/2007 3:48:04 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4006(SD40-2) WSOR 4050(SD40-2) WSOR 2053(SD20)
Views:  1106   Comments: 0
WSOR 4006, 4050 and 2053 on MJ
Title:  WSOR 4006, 4050 and 2053 on MJ
Description:  Power idles on the head end of what will eventually be the Janesville-bound wayfreight. Now that the UP's ballast trains are running for the season, it should be more common to see the JM/MJ trains in daylight.
Photo Date:  4/23/2007  Upload Date: 4/25/2007 3:23:21 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4006(SD40-2) WSOR 4050(SD40-2) WSOR 2053(SD20)
Views:  1107   Comments: 0
Cool morning at the yard
Title:  Cool morning at the yard
Description:  Two SD40-2s and an SD20 idle on the main with a Janesville train while the 3806 waits further back in the yard. WSOR's business train is at the right, and two of their bi-levels accompany a privately-owned car.
Photo Date:  4/23/2007  Upload Date: 4/25/2007 3:35:41 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4006(SD40-2) WSOR 4050(SD40-2) WSOR 2053(SD20) WSOR 3806(GP38) WSOR 10C(E9A) WSOR 10A(E9A)
Views:  1592   Comments: 0
WSOR 4007
Title:  WSOR 4007
Description:  The T006 crew is about to cross Commercial avenue with their Janesville-bound train on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/5/2011  Upload Date: 6/7/2011 11:28:06 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4007(SD40-2) WSOR 1506(MP15AC) WSOR 1503(MP15AC) WSOR 4050(SD40-2)
Views:  409   Comments: 0
T008
Title:  T008
Description:  The T008 crew eases their train around the curve on the connector track between the Prairie and Reedsburg subs. They will join the Reedsburg sub at the Broom street switch. Here, they are approaching Bedford street at 11:54.
Photo Date:  2/25/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2012 2:12:27 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4010(SD40-2) WSOR 4050(SD40-2)
Views:  393   Comments: 0
T008
Title:  T008
Description:  Second in size to only the US Capitol building, Wisconsin's capitol dome keeps watch over the T008 train as it crosses East Washington ave at 12:07. In about a minute, the crew will reach the E. Johnson street yard.
Photo Date:  2/25/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2012 2:26:53 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4010(SD40-2) WSOR 4050(SD40-2)
Views:  481   Comments: 0
T008
Title:  T008
Description:  Here's another look at the T008 cruising along past the Long John. UW's Walnut street natural-gas burning power plant looms in the background. Photo taken at 11:45.
Photo Date:  2/25/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2012 2:07:27 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4010(SD40-2) WSOR 4050(SD40-2)
Views:  425   Comments: 0
T008
Title:  T008
Description:  The train continues into downtown Madison along Campus drive. The siding track (known as the "Long John") used to be a convenient place to stash coal loads for UW-Madison's Charter Street heater plant. The plant has been converted to natural gas, and now the siding houses the occasional cut of covered hoppers or cement shorties.
Photo Date:  2/25/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2012 2:00:04 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4010(SD40-2) WSOR 4050(SD40-2)
Views:  435   Comments: 0
T008
Title:  T008
Description:  The Prairie du Chien to Madison freight (T008) basks in the sun west of Middleton on the Prairie sub. Yesterday's T008 crew brought the train here, and today a new crew will be called to bring the train the rest of the way to the yard. They'll have some switching to do at the Middleton Business Park before heading to Madison. Photo taken at 0847.
Photo Date:  2/25/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2012 1:50:50 PM
Location:  Middleton, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4010(SD40-2) WSOR 4050(SD40-2)
Views:  463   Comments: 0
T008
Title:  T008
Description:  After finishing their switching chores in Middleton, T008 heads east into Madison. They're about to pass under Old Middleton road on the Prairie sub at 1135.
Photo Date:  2/25/2012  Upload Date: 2/25/2012 1:56:41 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
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Locomotives:  WSOR 4010(SD40-2) WSOR 4050(SD40-2)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
Saturday Morning at the Yard
Title:  Saturday Morning at the Yard
Description:  L465 uses a former UP GP39-2 to get their train ready while a T006 idles on the main
Photo Date:  5/3/2014  Upload Date: 10/5/2014 12:13:33 PM
Location:  Madison, WI
Author:  Brian Connolly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WSOR 4013(SD40-2) WSOR 4050(SD40-2) WAMX 3947(GP39-2)
Views:  571   Comments: 0


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